Mr Pradeep Singh Gautam is an Indian Revenue Service (IT) officer of the 2008 batch. His work experience is in the areas of tax audit, law enforcement related to tax evasion, and tax policy. Before joining Manohar Parrikar IDSA, he was working in the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in the Ministry of Finance as Joint Commissioner of Income Tax.

He has a Master’s in International Development: Public Policy and Management from the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester and bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. His master’s dissertation was on critical evaluation of insolvency and bankruptcy regime in India.

Mr Gautam’s general area of interest is geoeconomics, development economics and geopolitics.     

Publications

• MP-IDSA ISSUE BRIEFS : FATF: In Need of Darker Shades of Grey
• “Why Defence of Ladakh May Lie in the Indian Ocean”, Swarajya, June 24, 2020.
• “Pakistan’s Search for Identity: Why Imran Khan is Promoting a Turkish TV Serial”, Moneycontrol, May 23, 2020.
• “Can China’s Belt-and-Road-Initiative Survive COVID-19?”, News18, April 21, 2020. 
• “Coronavirus Pandemic: Who Managed it Worse? China or Western Democracies?”, The Free Press Journal, April 08, 2020.
• “Pakistan Army’s Ideology a Stumbling Block to Peace”, Asia Times, February 25, 2019 (co-authored).